Jon Stewart rips into ‘authoritarian’ Trump’s ‘embarrassingly sycophantic’ cabinet members
“The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart slammed President Trump as an “authoritarian” – and ripped into his “embarrassingly sycophantic” cabinet members for showering the president with praise.
The late-night comedian played a montage during his show of members of the administration – including Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Attorney General Pam Bondi – lavishing Trump with thanks and compliments during a cabinet meeting.
“When I watch those cabinet meetings, I actually think – are they making fun of him? It’s so over the top!” Stewart said.
“Your d–k is so big we can barely lift it, because it’s covered in real gold, not the paint, real gold!” he mocked, in a dig at Trump’s Oval Office, which has been filled to the brim with gold decorations.
Stewart tied authoritarianism to “the opulence of medieval kinds, the excesses of Middle Eastern autocrats,” and then aired a clip of Trump showing off the new gold artifacts to Fox News host Laura Ingraham.
“Throughout the years, people have tried to come up with a gold paint that would look like gold and they have never been able to do it. Look at that, look,” Trump told Ingraham, as he pointed to a solid-gold cherub. “You’ve never been able to match gold with gold paint. That’s why it’s gold.”
Stewart sarcastically sniped, “That dude is so blue-collar. Oh, he’s down at the factory with the boys, ‘Why can’t they make gold paint that looks like gold?’
“But, you know, rooms filled with real gold cherubs are nothing if those rooms aren’t also filled with the echoes of the most embarrassingly sycophantic hosannas,” Stewart added in another blow to the president’s cabinet members.
Stewart started his rant on authoritarianism by discussing the recent deportation of a man to El Salvador, which Justice Department officials have acknowledged was a mistake.
“I gotta tell you, I did not think he would get this authoritarian this fast. I really didn’t,” Stewart said of Trump.
“He’s attacked the free press, pulled random people off the streets, made law firms and universities bend the knee, announced Department of Justice investigations into an individual whose sole crime was suggesting that the 2020 election had been safe and well administered,” he continued.
